Who? What? How? Sunny Peta Yoga
Sunny Peta is a yoga facilitators, writer, somatic life coach and workshop facilitator. She has been in a 30 yrs of an on-off love affair with yoga and has finally committed to gaining her teaching certification. She also has a 25 yr practice of Chi Kung.
She specialises in teaching Ageless Mobility Yoga for Elders. The focus of the 90 minute class is on movement for mobility and Balance including an extended Balance Playtime where people get to explore, using props, each other. The class features a long initial relaxation,, designed to bring focus into the body.
Teaching Style
Sunny's teaching style is an eclectic combination of facilitation with yoga, movement, energy work, chi kung, individual attention specialising in working with third-agers elders. Her aim is to empower everyone to embrace yoga by drawing abck the veil of 'mystery' that surrounds it without losing connection to the depth of experience yoga offers.
Your Yoga Your Body
She has a particular interest in functional anatomy inspired by Bernie Clark, Paul Grilley, and Thomas Myers, and the concept that because of the way our bodies are uniquely structured we will only benefit from yoga when we drop the 'end gain' of an asana or series of movements and work within our own body's framework.
Even though everyone can develop more strength and mobility, some of us have body structures that will never be able to bend over backwards in a wheel or cross their legs in Lotus pose. It doesn't matter. That's not what Yoga is about. Yoga is about exploring and using your own body well, and gaining as much benefit from this as those who can do all kinds of twisty pretzel shapes. Above all it's taking the time to go inside and feel the experience, to be present to get to know the workings of your own body, intimately, and to be able to go slowly enough to know your edge and avoid injury and in real life,stay more balanced, present and be able to quickly recover from falls in many circumstances.
My kind of Yoga
Sunny’s favourite areas of yoga practice and exploration are Yin Yoga: for the link to TCM [Traditional Chinese Medicine] meridians, the work on connective tissues and the slow deep experience, Energy Yoga for it's relationship with the TCM meridian system and its effect on the lymphatic system; Restorative Yoga for the ultimate relaxation and iRest Yoga Nidra a therapeutic deep yogic sleep technique that also facilitates powerful experiences of awareness and awakening. In 2018 Sunny completed the first part of her iRest Yoga Nidra teaching qualification and a 30-hour Yin Yoga teacher’s training in March.
I’ve had to modify my practice
Her personal experience of being 66 and undergoing the challenges of glaucoma, and arthritis in relation to yoga, has led her to modify her own practice and enabled her to understand better the unique challenges many people face, whether you are older or younger but challenged by illness . She wants to encourage and assist you to explore yoga within your limits.
There's no such thing as 'being good at yoga'
Yoga can benefit everyone who sticks with it.. and who is willing to let go of the need to be perfect. In yoga there is no good yoga or bad yoga. there is just your yoga. Your yoga is good when you are in your body, feeling what's going on and being present to the experience... It's bad when you're outside judging, wishing, beating yourself up, striving no matter how easy it is for you to 'get into an asana'.
Be your own guru! Question everything and check it out for yourself. - Sunny Peta
